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TO-ALI; W'HOM IT MAY .CONCERN Be it known that I, E. A. G. ROULSTONE,'of.Roxbury,'in the county of Norfolk, and Stato of-Massachuseti,

have invented an Improvementin Travelling-Bags; and I do hereby declare that the'follovving, taken in eon- 'neetion with the drawings whichaccompany and form partof this specification, is a description of' my'inventon sufficient to enable those skilled'in the art to practise it.

The-invention relates to the manner of constructing the `frames of travelling-bags and applying them to the exible bag-forming material, having partieularreferene to strengthening the frame at the corners thereof,

and giving to said corners a nent .n.ppeafrance, and to simplifying the application of the frame to the rvflexible bag material. l I. l 4' Tho'nature' of the invention ivill be-more clearly understoodafter,description and'examination of the.l drawings, in which A'denotes'a cross section of a portion of a frame-and body, made and connected in accordance with my invention; B, an .outer` view of the Icorner; C, a cross-section of the frame' through the corner rivet. a denotes the 'angleffrnma having thc body-'applying edge turned over, as seen atbfl c denotes the flexible bagforming material, which may be forniedmith or ivithoht alinig, as circumstances require.. The

edge to be fixed to theframes I first in sert under the Vturned over edge of a strip, d, (as seen at A) compressing the metal down upon theY cloth or leather. The cloth or leather is then folded over this turned over edge of the metal, and the strip of metal, with the cloth thereto applied, is pressed 'into' the frame between the'groovo b and the inner surface or-wall f of the frame, being' there held proferablyby rivets passing through the strip,

the cloth or leather, andthe frame.v Then, by drawing the material outwardly from the frame in forming the. bag, it will be seen thatthe ile'xible material is'not only connected tothe frame so as to `be undetaehableA therefrom by wear lor'strain at any point along tslengtlnbut 'also that the-bentlover edge. of the frame imparts a vi-nishat the line of connection between the body and frame. In bug frames recently devised by myself and by others, it hasl been. proposed, and to some extent practised, to out out the materialI Sphere the corrieris forilled,l

soas to simplify the bending of the metal into' a neat andvin'ished corner.l As this construction, however, weakens said corner,jand this at a point en the frame most exposed 'to vwear, Islit the metal in the line of the corner before the frame is bent, und turn down the' angular pieces formed'vby this slit andthe diagonal slit h, so that lwhenstho tail pieces z' are-lapped and riveted, as seen `at B, these turned .down ends forming part of such tail pieces shall form' a backing or reinforcement for the round corner, thereby'usingalll the material at the corner for strengthen-ing the same insteadvof` cutting a piece entirely out. The inn-er. angle k of the frame is generally madesqua'reor right angular. To lgive it a neat appearance and a line or curvature concentric to the Acurve of the corner, I turn out the edge doubled over to form th groove b, gradually bending it, s0 that when the tail piecesare riveted' together the inner angle or, corner shall be rounded, 'as shown at B.

I claim connecting the bag leather or body Ato the frame by iirst securing the edge of vthe fiexi'ole material iri the fold of a strip, d, an'd then applying said strip to the franxe between the groove b and plate f, uniting the whole together, substantially as setforth. 'l y Also reinforcing the corner of the frame by'turningdown the tail pieces so as -to form a backing for the plntej at the corner, substantially asfdescribed. l p v Also, forming the angle k rounding or concentric tothe corner, when constructed and arranged as setforth.

l E. A. G.'ROULSTONE.

Witnesses:

M. W. FROTHINQHAM, FRANCIS GoULD. 

